Big Bear? Grrr. Not an anti-gay thing, I just don't like the character. And of course Mai will be in the game, how do you make a KOF game without SNK's most recognized character? Look who's holding the poster fer key-ryan out loud.
Yeah, you'd think that, but Mai was
not in KOF XI.
(She and several other missing staple KOF characters were added into the
home version of XI on PS2; all SNK did was take some NeoGeo Battle Coliseum characters and just insert them into the game. But this thread is about the arcade version.)
SNK has been removing some staple KOF characters for the past few years now, to make their other fighters' line-ups a little more diverse. Mai wasn't in XI, but she was in NGBC and Maximum Impact 2/Regulation A.
Yeah I'm not the biggest Big Bear fan myself. I'd rather have The Griffon/Tizoc. But they could change him up; he hasn't been in an *SNK* fighter for like nine years now. Don't go by what Capcom did with him in CvS.
And isn't that Yamazaki in the character screen (middle column)? Or am I smoking some shit?
Naw, it's hard to tell in that picture but it's Kim, Robert, and Benimaru.
I don't suspect Yamazaki will be in. But speaking of Fatal Fury characters, I hope Joe comes back too.
But don't forget that on top of this game, KOF 2002 Unlimited Match is coming out, and KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A2 (talk about a mouthful!) was announced a while ago and has yet to be unveiled.
I can't pimp Regulation A enough; it's super-awesome and refines the already much-better-than-the-broken-original MI2. It's too bad it never got a U.S. release.
